First, to the CORDR crew: BRAVO !!!!!!
Outstanding job.
I think it outstanding that the only problem of the whole day that I'm aware of was that 3 full size roll-offs were not enough.
As I recall Paige said 169 people showed up. That is a great turn-out, but we can and need to do better. I've been to two Early Bronco events that out drew this, one in Hesperia drew 265 Early Broncos. Not people, Broncos. This event drew from as far away as the midwest. How many Early Broncos can there still be running around ? And how many off road racers are there ?
So, during this morning's drive back to foggy Ventura I thot about how to encourage more people to show up for this and other civc actions that demostrate the off road community's love and respect for the environment. Even turned the radio off. Had a minor epiphany that I'll toss out for discusion.
What if we could convince every sanctioning body (since they have a stake in this too) to award race points to every team racing in their series that participates in a clean up at or near one of their race courses ? I thinking that the number of points should be roughly equal to a third in class finish. I don't think it should be more points because race teams are set up to try to win races, not clean the desert. I don't think it should be less points or it won't be very motivational. Imagine losing the race season to a team that participated in just one clean up.
The drawing on the ODC II t-shirt might become reality, and wouldn't that be grand ?
"Teach you all I know and you're still stupid"
-- Howdy Lee
Outstanding job.
I think it outstanding that the only problem of the whole day that I'm aware of was that 3 full size roll-offs were not enough.
As I recall Paige said 169 people showed up. That is a great turn-out, but we can and need to do better. I've been to two Early Bronco events that out drew this, one in Hesperia drew 265 Early Broncos. Not people, Broncos. This event drew from as far away as the midwest. How many Early Broncos can there still be running around ? And how many off road racers are there ?
So, during this morning's drive back to foggy Ventura I thot about how to encourage more people to show up for this and other civc actions that demostrate the off road community's love and respect for the environment. Even turned the radio off. Had a minor epiphany that I'll toss out for discusion.
What if we could convince every sanctioning body (since they have a stake in this too) to award race points to every team racing in their series that participates in a clean up at or near one of their race courses ? I thinking that the number of points should be roughly equal to a third in class finish. I don't think it should be more points because race teams are set up to try to win races, not clean the desert. I don't think it should be less points or it won't be very motivational. Imagine losing the race season to a team that participated in just one clean up.
The drawing on the ODC II t-shirt might become reality, and wouldn't that be grand ?
"Teach you all I know and you're still stupid"
-- Howdy Lee